campion

IPA: kˈæmpiʌn

Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.
Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
An unincorporated community in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
An abandoned townsite, now a locality in the Shire of Nungarin, in the Wheatbelt region, Western Australia.

Examples of "campion" in Sentences

It possesses more fascination than the similar but staid red campion.
A semicircle of pink moss campion smiles from a stone. posted by Deron Bauman in books, literature, quotes | * | 1 comment comments
The flowers are a deep magenta, both richer and brighter than red campion found elsewhere, and they stand bold and beautiful against the blue of the sea beyond.
I used the red-flowered or day-campion, which is a perennial herb, and a smooth variety of the white evening-campion, which flowers as a rule in the first summer.
In the parish lanes, sunlit banks of red campion, white stitchwort, bluebells and ferns are dusty from earth eroded by burrowing rabbits and stirred up by traffic.
There are 12 wild flower species in the ordinary playing field but in its first year the haven was home to 107 species, including scabious, white campion and bird's foot trefoil.
Waist-high colonies of red campion alternate with leggy stalks of buttercup and bright eaves of flowering honeysuckle; dog roses sprinkle their pink, aromatic ladders from high hedge-tops.
Granite bedrock and boulders – all encrusted with lichens – are lapped in clumps of white bladder campion and pink thrift, drifts of bluebells and patches of turf starred with vernal squill (the seaside bluebell).
Above the neck of land and its relics of ancient fortifications tower pillars and blocks of granite where yet more bluebells grow in cracks and gullies, with cushions of sea-pink and campion softening ledges above the sea.